What can visual analytics & big data do for you? In this 45 minute webinar, Stephen McDaniel will review visual analytic examples and demonstrate what big data analytics can do for you. Stephen will demonstrate this using Tableau 8. Visual analytics- how is it different than traditional analytics? Review several examples and how they empower … Read more
Over on R4Stats, I replied to Bob Muenchen’s article, Forecast Update: Will 2014 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS? Personally, I think SAS is a wonderful application, with my SAS experience starting in SAS programming back in 1989 (mainframes, along with Fortran), SAS Enterprise Guide (I wrote SAS for Dummies, the … Read more
Stephen Few, noted visual analytics expert and the original inspiration for our work in the field, recently wrote about criticisms of best data visualizations practices. In particular, Amanda Cox of the New York Times said, “There’s a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That’s possibly true … Read more
Since 2007, we have traveled 365,000 miles to help tens of thousands of people via 8 books, 24 conference talks, 47 public trainings, 26 on-site trainings, 5 conference seminars, 15 analytic advisory engagements and 36 consulting projects. Click to review our detailed timeline or download a summary here. Share the power of R shiny apps … Read more
Download the presentation Picture This! Your Data in Tableau. Watch my big data talk here and download the example workbooks here (requires Tableau 8 to open). Attending this conference was a great experience. Based on multiple customer discussions at the conference, Alteryx is a great product for personal data integration, data enrichment and predictive analytics. … Read more
Rapid Graphs with Tableau 8 The Original Guide for the Accidental Analyst The 8 version of this book is published in grayscale in order to meet popular demand for a lower list price versus earlier versions (5, 6 and 7) of this book series. + Written by Tableau insider & former product manager, teaching Tableau … Read more
While working with a client, they asked if I would show them how to analyze payment history and futures with a Gantt chart. I asked them to make a Tableau Data Extract (TDE). They created a TDE and then e-mailed it to me, all 25 Megabytes (MB)! Fairly big for an e-mail attachment (at many … Read more
Thank you for your interest in our newsletter. Please share it with your colleagues that can benefit from it. Tableau 8 for The Accidental Analyst A One-day Workshop A one-day, intensive hands-on workshop for newer users of Tableau. Using a case study approach, attendees will learn the essentials of how to use and … Read more
If you display information the right way, anybody can be an analyst. –JOHN TUKEY Prominent American statistician who first used the word “software” Part 2 Topics +Treemaps and packed bubble charts +Automatically selecting the right data for your analysis +Forecasting for smarter planning +Google Analytics on the desktop—fast, beautiful and … Read more
If you display information the right way, anybody can be an analyst. –JOHN TUKEY Prominent American statistician who first used the word “software” Part 1 Topics +Multi-item color encoding +Multi-item data labels +Creating sets in Tableau 8 +Union, intersection and partial sets; using sets in calculated fields The following videos … Read more